Advocacy & Accountability
Leading global advocacy to accelerate the development, implementation, and financing of NCD policies, while holding decision-makers accountable for commitments and results.
Our advocacy focuses on cross-cutting issues that unify the NCD community, ensuring solutions are evidence-based, impactful, and action-driven.
We take a three-pronged approach to drive meaningful change:
- Shaping the global agenda: Leading and coordinating advocacy efforts at the UN, WHO, and international financial institutions, creating policy opportunities to catalyse political will and accelerate action on NCDs.
- Driving national and regional change: Mobilising and supporting members, alliances, and partners to translate global momentum into stronger national policies, legislation, and resource commitments.
- Ensuring accountability: Strengthening monitoring and accountability mechanisms to track progress, expose gaps, and ensure commitments result in tangible improvements for people living with NCDs.
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Capacity Development
Building a strong, sustainable NCD civil society movement and ensuring meaningful involvement of people living with NCDs.
We work to strengthen the capacity of NCDA members, particularly in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), supporting them to advocate for policy change, drive accountability, and shape NCD responses in their countries, at regional and global levels.
Our approach combines:
- Supporting civil society alliances—helping form and strengthen national and regional NCD alliances in priority countries.
- Providing targeted advocacy support—offering training, technical assistance, and grants to amplify locally-led efforts.
- Creating peer-learning opportunities—facilitating knowledge exchange and collaboration across national, regional, and global advocacy work.
- Ensuring meaningful involvement—empowering people living with NCDs to take leadership roles in shaping policies and decisions that impact their lives.
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Knowledge
Generating and translating evidence into action for stronger NCD policies and implementation.
As a thought leader on NCD policy and practice, NCDA plays a vital role in addressing systemic gaps and barriers to effective NCD responses. We engage in the full evidence cycle—from research generation to policy implementation—to ensure best practices drive real-world change.
Our knowledge work focuses on:
- Leading policy research—developing reports, analysis, and briefs on critical NCD issues, from financing strategies to the commercial determinants of health.
- Bridging the knowledge-to-action gap—working with governments, civil society, and academia to ensure evidence-based solutions inform decision-making.
- Strengthening data transparency—improving monitoring, tracking, and accountability for NCD financing, prevention, and care policies.
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Partnerships
Catalysing multisectoral action and forging impactful collaborations to advance the NCD agenda.
Addressing NCDs requires collaboration across sectors, from governments and UN agencies to civil society, academy, and responsible private sector partners. NCDA fosters and leads partnerships that drive action and integrate NCDs into global development priorities.
Our partnership strategy includes:
- Promoting multisectoral approaches—engaging health and non-health actors to develop cross-cutting solutions for NCDs within the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) framework.
- Ensuring responsible collaboration—advancing guidance and best practices on ethical and health-promoting partnerships while safeguarding against conflicts of interest.
- Building cross-sectoral momentum—working with development agencies, international financial institutions, and global health initiatives to mobilize financing and investment in NCDs.
